7/12/11

Quotes for Encryption

"I sit in place for days. There's nothing I want to do, nothing that gets me up. The world is too rotten. I'm not so convinced that existence precedes essence, because what's so inherently bad with the world that we turned out this way? In fact, the material story is quite beautiful. Only with consciousness does death come to life.

'The flaw is in that which finds the flaw.'

Judgment is not the perpetrator; it is perspective. There ought to be no perspective, and I mean that technically. Our bodies tuned to pleasure and pain are not just the framework for evil but its catalyst. Experience turns the eternal dance of atoms into moral pandemonium.

'And whatever's charming disappears, while all things lovely only hurt my head.'

Any fascination with the world is in vain. The charm of physics is mere witchcraft, warped by our metaphysical projections, our conquests for glory and the causality between mind and body, so to speak. Even consequences might be local to our perception, so if there was hope - hope for change - would it just be an illusion?

'Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt.'

I can't find anything worth living for. Ambition is spoiled by human dominion; I'm bound to this wretched place. Ten billion innocent and harmless creatures are murdered in the United States every year for two reasons: power and pleasure. I can't live with this, and it's only one of society's countless transgressions. I don't understand people, and the only person who might understand me is fictional. I hope there is a God, and I hope he is good."